William Frye, former Senator for Maine

Frye was a senator from Maine and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1911.

He was previously a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1901 to 1907; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1895 to 1901; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1889 to 1895; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1883 to 1889; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Maine’s 2^nd congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881; the representative for Maine’s 2^nd congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Maine’s 2^nd congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Maine’s 2^nd congressional district as a Republican from 1871 to 1873.

Photo of Sen. William Frye [R-ME, 1907-1911]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1881 to Aug 1911, Frye missed 1,353 of 5,060 roll call votes, which is 26.7%. This is on par with the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	30	31.2%	0^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	65	30.7%	0^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	23	60.5%	0^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	101	25.2%	0^th
1881 Mar-Mar	168	60	35.7%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	52	85.2%	0^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	35	53.8%	50^th
1884 Mar-May	114	31	27.2%	50^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	13	16.7%	0^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	48	28.1%	50^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	9	14.3%	50^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	55	23.5%	50^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	12	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	20	14.0%	50^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	3	33.3%	50^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	10	20.0%	0^th
1888 Mar-May	64	14	21.9%	50^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	19	30.6%	50^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	13	92.9%	50^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	43	21.6%	0^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	7	22.6%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	114	38	33.3%	50^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	20	13.3%	33^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	79	7	8.9%	0^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	17	11.9%	0^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	7	26.9%	25^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	19	24.4%	25^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	11	10.5%	0^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	9	11.7%	40^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	0^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	104	32.4%	20^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	11	52.4%	60^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	12	11.9%	0^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	4	11.1%	25^th
1896 Mar-May	66	20	30.3%	50^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	24	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	25	35.2%	50^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	35	17.5%	15^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	8	30.8%	77^th
1898 Mar-May	51	7	13.7%	0^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	19	37.3%	54^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	3	15.0%	20^th
1900 Mar-May	57	9	15.8%	19^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	3	25.0%	47^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	15	18.8%	18^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	49	2	4.1%	14^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	2	8.7%	27^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	4	22.2%	18^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	5	13.9%	14^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	11	19.6%	52^nd
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	11	22.4%	76^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	23	74.2%	82^nd
1907 Jan-Mar	38	8	21.1%	38^th
1908 Mar-May	49	17	34.7%	46^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	22^nd
1909 Apr-Aug	130	39	30.0%	68^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	36	14	38.9%	66^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	8	19.5%	38^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	28	53.8%	89^th
1911 May-Aug	78	78	100.0%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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Missed Votes

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